Jet2 is expected to deliver stronger profits for the past year amid a jump in holidaymakers booking last-minute trips.

However, investors will be keen for more guidance from the company about how delays to plane deliveries and travel disruption will impact its performance in the new financial year.

Three works created by Northern Ireland theatre, dance and arts organisations will be spotlighted as part of an event at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer.

Family hubs offering parenting support and youth services are set to be rolled out across every council in England, ministers have announced.

The Department for Education is putting £500 million targeted at disadvantaged communities into the scheme, to put a Best Start family hub in every local authority by April 2026.

The Education Secretary has said that the scheme will “give a lifeline” to families.

Home Secretary Yvette Cooper says Islamic and right-wing extremism remain Britain’s “biggest threats” ahead of the 20th anniversary of the July 7 bombings.

On July 7 2005, four suicide bombers targeted the capital’s transport network, killing 52 people and injuring more than 770 on three London Underground trains and a bus.

A series of attempted bombings followed the attacks, and in the subsequent manhunt for suspects, police shot dead innocent man Jean Charles de Menezes, at a tube station.

Ministers “pushed ahead too fast” and “didn’t listen enough” on welfare reform, the Education Secretary has said.

Bridget Phillipson also said that future spending decisions had been made “harder”, when asked about the prospect of the two-child benefit cap being scrapped.

The King’s Foundation has launched a programme to teach students the art of costume-making for film and television.

The Costume Craft Programme is supported by Amazon MGM Studios and Ascend, its global crew training programme, which will give students the opportunity to create costumes for the studios and Prime Video.

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